00:00Let me run just a few through a few of the ways in which the Trump administration has been wildly successful.
00:10Let me start with the thing that is, of course, in the news.
00:14And what the president said going back 10 years, if you look at the campaign in 2015 and 2016,
00:20and he said it consistently through his second term, is that he does not want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
00:27It's very simple. It destabilizes the entire region.
00:31It gives this terrible regime leverage over the United States of America.
00:35As the president often jokes with me, everybody in Iran calls the Iranian leader the supreme leader.
00:41That's a pretty amazing title if you think about it.
00:44But he looked at me in the situation room a few days ago and he said,
00:48Mr. Vice President, you don't have to call him the supreme leader, but you would if the guy had a nuclear weapon.
00:53Because the leverage that nuclear weapons give you to destabilize the world, to destroy our economic interests,
01:01to destroy our national security interests, you don't want the worst people in the world to have a nuclear weapon.
01:07So what did the president do?
01:08For 60 days, he negotiated aggressively to encourage that Iranian regime to give up those weapons peacefully.
01:15And by the way, he was more than willing to accept a peaceful settlement to that problem.
01:20But again, this comes back to instincts.
01:21When the president realized that there was not going to be a peaceful settlement to that problem,
01:26he sent B-2 bombers and dropped 12, 30,000-pound bombs on the worst facility and destroyed that program.
01:40And I think there are a lot of Republicans, by the way, I count myself among them,
01:44who after the past 25 years, they don't want to get involved in another long-term, protracted Middle Eastern conflict.
01:51We all saw what happened with Iraq and Afghanistan.
01:53And so what I call the Trump doctrine is quite simple.
01:57Number one, you articulate a clear American interest, and that's, in this case, that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.
02:04Number two, you try to aggressively, diplomatically solve that problem.
02:08And number three, when you can't solve it diplomatically, you use overwhelming military power to solve it,
02:14and then you get the hell out of there before it ever becomes a protracted conflict.
02:18That is the Trump doctrine.
02:19And to the Americans who are worried about this becoming a protracted conflict,
02:29I think the president solved that very quickly.
02:31Not only did we destroy the Iranian nuclear program, we did it with zero American casualties,
02:37and that's what happens when you've got strong American leadership.
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